Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma device notifier shows wrong free space on USB disks
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:56:47
Message-Id: 896124D5-BADE-48EA-8F3A-B6355DF2604E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Plasma device notifier shows wrong free space on USB disks by Flavio Cappelli
1 > On 3 Jan 2018, at 17:24, Flavio Cappelli <flavio.cappelli@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > …
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4 > I tried with three different USB drives and the behavior is the same:
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6 > ᅵ- 4GB flash drive on USB2 interface, vfat formatted, 3.3GB free
7 > ᅵ- 128GB flash drive on USB3 interface, exfat formatted, 107GB free
8 > ᅵ- 500GB external HDD on USB2 interface, ext4 formatted, 468GB free
9 >
10 > The device notifier always shows 1.2GB of free space and I cannot copy
11 > big files with dolphin to the USB disk.
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13 I bet it's to do with the FAT / VFAT formatting.
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15 If you don't get any more helpful replies here, I would take this directly to the KDE lists.
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17 Stroller